reference=[1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10];
target=[1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 3 8];
index = [];
complete_reference = [];
for i=1:9
thisref = reference(i);
match = find(thisref==target);
if isempty(match)
complete_reference(end+1) = thisref;
index(end+1) = NaN;
else
index = [index, match];
complete_reference = [complete_reference, repmat(thisref, 1, numel(match))];
end
end
complete_reference
index
We must assume that there could be multiple matches between the target and the reference, not just none or exactly 1, so we created an extended reference that repeats the reference number as often as needed to put in all of the matches.
